close — English to French

How English close is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: close in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: close (95 197), closes (603). By style: everyday 718 · literary 53 · biblical 43 · parliamentary 8 383 · legal and administrative 8 756 · UN documents 77 847.

étroite

Used about 13 489 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 961 · legal and administrative ≈ 365 · UN documents ≈ 12 164).

• This work will be undertaken in close collaboration with Parliament.

  Ce travail sera entrepris en étroite collaboration avec le Parlement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1703535

• These breakdowns will be decided in close cooperation with Member States.

  Ces ventilations seront arrêtées en étroite coopération avec les États membres.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 473928

• We also count on close cooperation with UNDP country offices in the subregion.

  Nous escomptons également une coopération étroite avec les bureaux de pays du PNUD dans la sousrégion.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 10433196

• From the outset, the European Parliament tried to work in close cooperation with the Council.

  Depuis le début, le Parlement européen a tenté d'amorcer une coopération étroite avec le Conseil.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 113794

• It shall ensure close cooperation between the Agency and relevant stakeholders.

  Elle assure une coopération étroite entre l'Agence et les parties intéressées.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1208438

ferme

Used about 8 612 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 277 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 834 · legal and administrative ≈ 821 · UN documents ≈ 5 676).

• The museum closes at 5.

  Le musée ferme à 17h.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by araneo and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #14016716 #14014012

• “The slab which closes the vault?”

  --La pierre qui ferme le caveau?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11428

• One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

  Celui qui donne au pauvre n’éprouve pas la disette, Mais celui qui ferme les yeux est chargé de malédictions.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 28:27

• It effectively closes off the pension markets of many Member States.

  Cela ferme littéralement le marché des pensions de nombreux États membres.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 176649

• A door will not open or close properly.

  Une portière ne s’ouvre ou ne se ferme pas correctement.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3209693

fin

Used about 7 126 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 524 · legal and administrative ≈ 912 · UN documents ≈ 5 676).

• The company closes its books at the end of March.

  L'entreprise clôture ses comptes à la fin du mois de mars.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Aiji · checked, community translation · #49036 #11377454

• It is this peril, possibly imminent towards the close of the eighteenth century, which the French Revolution, that immense act of probity, cut short.

  C'est à ce péril, imminent peut-être en Europe vers la fin du dix-huitième siècle, que vint couper court la Révolution française, cet immense acte de probité.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21605

• So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.

  Elle resta donc avec les servantes de Boaz, pour glaner, jusqu’à la fin de la moisson des orges et de la moisson du froment. Et elle demeurait avec sa belle-mère.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · RUT 2:23

• The end of the presidency closes a difficult and stimulating phase of our membership of the European Union.

  La fin de la période de présidence clôt une phase difficile et exaltante de notre appartenance à l'Union européenne.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1612776

• to close intervention buying-in at fixed price;

  de mettre fin aux achats à l'intervention à prix fixe;

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4020318

près

Used about 4 289 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 31 · literary ≈ 16 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 87 · legal and administrative ≈ 91 · UN documents ≈ 4 055).

• She stood close to him.

  Elle se tint près de lui.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #887412 #1328847

• The barrier was close at hand.

  La barrière était tout près.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9353

• The rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.

  Les anneaux seront près du rebord, et recevront les barres pour porter la table.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 25:27

• Slaughter as close to the farm as possible is something I greatly support.

  C'est un point que je soutiens tout à fait : l'abattage le plus près possible de l'exploitation agricole.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 254857

• External doorways shall be provided with handrails on both sides, fitted internally as close as practicable to the vehicle outer wall.

  Les portes extérieures doivent être munies de mains courantes des deux côtés, fixées à l'intérieur de la voiture le plus près possible de la paroi extérieure de celle-ci.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3419827

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• "Are scientists close to cloning a human being?" "Not by a long shot."

  « Les scientifiques sont-ils sur le point de répliquer un être humain ? » « Loin de là. »

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #747251 #800221

• Does anyone in your close family have heart disease?

  Quelqu'un dans ta famille proche souffre-t-il d'une maladie cardiaque ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by NurseMeeks and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #9849613 #9934851

• The resolution to the problem was close at hand.

  La résolution du problème était à portée de main.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · #43618 #12016621

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